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From Journal Articles…
…To Research Compendiums.
We want Dynamic Document Generation, where we can:
combine narrative with code
automatically generate figures and tables
automatically render results in text
format the content into a scientific paper (including citations!)
rinse & repeat
Using an automated method for scraping APA-formatted stats out of PDFs, Nuijten et al. (⊕2016) found that over 10% of p-values in published papers were inconsistent with the reported details of the statistical test, and 1.6% were what they called “grossly” inconsistent, e.g. difference between the p-value and the test statistic meant that one implied statistical significance and the other did not. Nearly half of all papers had errors in them.
When revisions are requested, one might have to tweak tables and figures by hand constantly, leading to a major incentive never to rerun analyses because it would mean re-pasting and re-illustratoring all the numbers and figures in a paper.
While programming environments may seem counter-intuitive for writing papers, they ultimately prevent mistakes and save time.
Enter Quarto…
Quarto® is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.
It’s the ‘new generation’ of R Markdown, designed to work multiple programming languages + tools in an aligned way.
Quarto can weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantly formatted output as documents, web pages, blog posts, books and more.
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